Week 2

In the second week of lecture we had a little bit about the history of technology of communication. We saw the explosion of mass communications an dlearned about Ferdinand de Saussure. We learned about the communication studies in USA, about minimun, mixed and maximum effects. We went thru the media studies in UK, where the part about the moral panics caught my attention, because it is an important issue that will always exist while the media is there. And we also had a look in the culture studies in Europe.But the best part of the lecture from far was the movie "La Jetee". This movie came with the explosion of the French cinema, that used simple methods to make their movies, and combined them with complex stories.. "La Jetee" is about the almost extinction of the human beeing, where the only ones left where hidden in the underground. Hopping to find something that would allow the repopulation of humans in the earths surface, random people where chosen to go thru painfull experiments to visit the past. From there a chllenging story follows. The end is exceptionally surprising. Ironically "La Jetee", that was supposed to overcome the hegemony and non creativity of the Hollywood movies, was also used as basis for the famous Hollywood movie "The Twelve Monkeys".